Elle

yup had the same myself - more than once sadly - splint or morphine solves it.

you can change your character's name from the first splash screen that shows your avatar and the game menu - your char name is displayed at the bottom right, just click on the name and start editing. as for the default config reset - I have no idea.

why is it that "wit" always seems to lack something in text? I have to admit that I chuckled just a little when I first read the OP because bacon currently is the ONLY meat in the game unless you count powdered milk (some vegans will). I had actually been wondering where the higher end proteins in game were when they added the bacon. how in the hell is one supposed to exercise rule #2 without all the much needed proteins? I'm sure we will all know by BETA. anyways Sarge good call on pointing out the actual reality in game right now ;)

I will take umbrage on the "root-eater" comment but I agree 100% with the rest of this.

yup and sometimes when you think it is safe the zeds find you just as you click the logout confirmation. had that happen to me more than once. and occasionally my comp will crash while I'm busy chopping up a zed and my poor lil char just get the crap beat out of her, sometimes shes dead when I log back on and sometimes she just bleeding to death. in any case be prepared to loose EVERYTHING at any point in the game for any reason. that's what makes it so fun right? I forgot the obligatory "It's ALPHA" statement whilst I was typing it all up so just insert this one anywhere ya like... It's ALPHA!

good to know.... tactical bacon is not meat. interesting.

hrm maybe they will just wait for farming to be implemented then grow their own veggies - this of course just ignores all the fruits and veggies already available in the game.

It was late when it all started, when I began to have doubts about any success in solving my little problem. The sky was cloudy and somewhat angry looking and it had to be near sunset. I continued to press on to the west searching every house, shack, garage and barn in search of sticks for a splint. It was tedious, time consuming, and I would much rather had been somewhere else doing something else... soon enough I suppose. The pain in my arm had reached a point beyond annoyance, I'm certain its not broken but its not getting any better. I'm afraid I'll begin to attract unwanted attention with these frequent outbursts and my aim is in the shitter. I see a long barn ahead and my spirits lift briefly as I sprint to the large open doorway. I pause inside to catch my breath then go about a quick search of the open floor, no sticks. Outside again I notice the sky is much darker and my search will only become more difficult. With exhausted determination I turn myself west and jog up the low hillside scanning the horizon for any place that might harbor a bundle of sticks. As I crest the hilltop I realize that I have run right to Zelenogorsk. Sticks! Surely in all of Zelenogorsk I can find some sticks. It is at this point I remember there is a medical center here.... morphine perhaps. My mind having shifted gears with the fast approaching dark turns rapidly to the medical center and before I even realize I have abandon sticks I am standing inside. No morphine. Oh but there are garages right across the street near the water pump. Sticks! The dark is fully upon me now as I open all the garages, no sticks. I make my way through the house with a piano in it, no sticks. Looking out the window on the second floor I can just make out the outlines of the camo building on the little military base. Morphine again? Maybe sticks too? I'm thinking about the little base as I crawl under the wall and what other potential it might have. Never hurts to have an innocent look around right? I creep just a little to have a look down the way at the barracks and decide I should go have a peek at what might be inside. Damn is it dark. I'm making a fast creep across this small open area when I run smack dab into something I don't recall being there. A quick peek with the light reveals I have just collided with a zed in the dark. Needless to say much unwanted attention was attracted by that. Things are just little bit laggy as I turn my M4 to meet my latest obstacle when the lights go out. You Are Dead. Now I am fighting a minor coronary and major hissy fit so I close down the game and watch as Steam updates my game time.... 666 lesson learned, don't play on the devil's time.

aww thanks for the awesome responses, that was a really fun morning despite the fact that I lost a fully geared player - seems my endgame lately has been gear-up, scavenge hunt for maps (or some other bauble that has my attention), replace or repair all my crap that got trashed on the hunt for stuff then fix all the damage I take while searching which starts a new search for supplies/gear. I tell myself I should head over to berezino (cherno, electro, or...) and watch a gunfight or 20 as soon as I find whatever it is I am lookin for, but the search never ends, ever. freakin zeds trashin my stuffs.... to poster that suggested calling the medics, I was fully mobile at the time so I believed that my solution was just over the next hill or around the next corner. I had been telling myself this for almost two days looking for sticks or morphine (and people say there is nothing to do in the game but shoot at each other...) so it was only an annoyance but my char had started making noise about it in the game so it was time to get serious. Powell, yeah it was tough luck but its all good - after my little fits over these things I just respawn and do it all over again with a smile (crazy grin really) on my face :) so I'm havin fun.

Woot! yeah I'm havin fun...

^this

morphine or a splint - lately I've been using the splints as morphine is a bit scarce. the only effect I think I've noticed from this status is a shaky scope reticle but I could be mistaken, I just fix it as soon as I have sticks for the splint.

try here... http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/190827-dayz-support/

yeah well it makes my heart sink to witness people like you feel as tho your aggression is the moral high ground somehow. and I think we have the answer to your original post - people like you are the reason people like me will never surrender and work hard to avoid interaction. oh and do you think for one second that during the apocalypse I am going to stop and consider that at some point in history my ancestors beat the stuffing out of your ancestors?? seems unreasonable. edit: forgot to address the hostage situation - he was not your hostage until you had immediate control of his person. that did not happen until you shot him.

he wasn't your hostage until you incapacitated him and cuffed him but he was your victim the entire time. maybe you should have just taken the 50meter shot. "gunboat diplomacy" (not actually diplomacy but rather a "my gun is bigger than your's" situation) may work between governments that have armies but it never works with smaller groups - someone always looses (a lot in most cases) - and I am sorry but everything you have described in your OP makes you the aggressor plain and simple. I and many like me will not negotiate - remember that the next time you corner some solo player and try to have your way with them. edit: oh and history lessons have no relevance in a video game that establishes an unprecedented event (albeit fictional) that destroys everything that was built on that history. welcome to the apocalypse.

like I said - not being taken hostage, ever. apparently your victim felt the same way. the second you say anything that suggests I should in any way disarm or stop while I am running or anything along those lines you have just tossed diplomacy down the crapper.

no worries I live around a lot of OCD. be sad all you want but I am not alone in this and you will encounter many that feel this way. as for your victim... his mistake was trying to flee - just sit tight and kill everything that comes thru the door or wait till the squad gets bored (patience, while not always providing a just reward, has much merit on its own) or opts out of the risk of loosing life or gear. soooo you've caught me on a base with my pants down and you are telling me to drop my wep or die - diplomacy just shit the bed.

some of us are simply NOT going to be hostages. ever. had you cornered me in that barracks and I had no way out except at your good will then I am forcing you to fight no matter the odds - I don't want to chat with you at this point and I am certainly not compliant. yes you will likely kill me. I will do everything in my power to kill or maim as many of you as possible. the more it costs you, the better I feel about it. the biggest difference in the way I play vs the way you play is that if I have the upper hand on a military base I will almost always allow the other person to escape if I have not been seen and if I have been seen I will assure the other person that I have no intent to shoot (even if I have my wep pointed at their face) and we should part ways alive and unscathed. in an even match its usually a flight situation on both sides (as in no one had a wep out and we surprised each other) I tend to allow my flight direction to be known and I watch my six but I run. if I am on the loosing side no matter how many I encounter, I die. if you are alone I will likely leave you unscathed (and take my punishment for not being alert) but if you are in a group the odds of dick measuring is pretty high so.... at any rate once the shooting starts I am going to shoot up as much of your group as I possibly can and force you to kill me. once dead or unconscious I will respawn immediately so grab your cuffs or just keep em in your pocket cause I aint stickin around to hear you talk smack on local comms.

I know right?? if I spend 6 hours gearing up I did it on purpose... otherwise I get geared up reasonably well rather quickly (of course it all depends on what I plan to do with that spawn). I will spend a ton of time just looking at stuff too so there have been times when its taken me days to gear up but that's all on me.

that's funny.... I have my own boobies and right now I am drinkin a beer my gf paid for. just sayin.

aww Irish that was cute :)

I have noticed that when I switch from the server list back to the main load screen my char will start her animations right off - yesterday I discovered that if I click and hold LMB while animation is playing I can release the LMB and the animation will finish and start over right away. might not be the same for you but good luck :)

its a bug and the devs are aware.

the last few times I was in that town I had run-ins with zeds so I guess they've been added. I have only run across 5 all together and I am sure that at least two of those were respawns. I've found them close to the fire station and near the new log house in the center of town.

disable post processing. you will get a performance boost as well.